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THE HAPPY 
HEART FAMILY 


By VIRGINIA GERSON 




New York 

FOX, DUFFIELD AND COMPANY 


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LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Oooies Received 

SEP 12 1904 

Ooovrlsrht Entry 

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CLASS ✓ XXo. No. 

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Copyright, 1904, by 
Fox, Duffield & Co. 





The Trow Press, New York 





CHAPTER I 

The Whole Family 

CHAPTER II 

Just the Little Bits of Babies 

CHAPTER III 
The Strange Creatures 

CHAPTER IV 
The Nanny-Goat’s Short Tale 

CHAPTER V 
The Foolish Naughtiness 

CHAPTER VI 
The Catama-Nanny Boat 


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THE 


HAPPY 


HEART FAMILY 


Chapter First 


T 

H E R E was 

once 

upon 

a 

time a 

little 

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MOTHER 

And 

this 

little 

tiny MOTHER 

had 

a heart as big as 

her 

whole 

body, 

except 

just a 

little 

head 

(so she could 

be sensible) 

and 

enough 

hands 

and 

feet 

to keep her 

from 

being 

lazy. 

Her 

family 

was 


called the HEART FAMILY, but she was always called 
LITTLE MOTHER-HEART. 



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THEN there was a FATHER to this family, 



Chapter Second 

N O W there was something very funny 
these children : When they were little 

tiny babies they all looked EXACTLY ALIKE, 


about 

teeny 

and 


LITTLE MOTHER- HEART used to carry them around 


LIKE 


THIS— 


But when they were ONE YEAR 



OLD she would get very anxious to 
know if they were going to be little BOY- 

HEARTS or little GIRL-HEARTS, and so she would 

stand them down on a lovely rose-colour mat, and then if the little heart 

was a little GIRL-HEART 

she would 


stand 


this 


way— 



BUT if it was a 


little BOY-HEART, he would stand up 



like 


this ! 


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Chapter Third 

N OW one hot SUMMER’S DAY PAPA 
G O O D - H E A R T and the little teeny MOTHER 

jk all their few children for a walk on the beach, when 
'HAT should come walking along the SEA-SHORE, arm in 

arm, but a red and white striped NANNY-GOAT and a BLACK 
VELVET CAT with a white shirt-front and long whiskers! 


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The little-hearts were so frightened that they all stood 


still, and then they all began to thump up and down, and 
then they began to scream, and throw sand and sea-weed 
at them as fast as they could. But instead of running 
away, these FUNNY CREATURES began dancing the 
most lovely two-step, and bowed so deeply to each other, 
that the little-hearts dropped the sand and sea-weed and all 
of them joined the dance. 




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FUNNY CREATURES to supper with them at the 

HEART-HOUSE, where all the doors and windows are 
always open. 

After they had finished a large dish of Sweetness with hot 

Happy-dumplings, and all the little-hearts with lots of kisses 

were tumbled higglety-pigglety into their little beds, PAPA 
GOOD-HEART asked the NANNY-GOAT if she would like to 
tell how she came to have such pretty colours ? And the 

NANNY-GOAT said that one day a NICE LITTLE BOY 

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had invited her to take a walk with him in the CITY, 


and he bought her a paper full of candy, and when 

they finished eating the candy she ate up the paper ; 
but when she saw how surprised the NICE LITTLE BOY was, 
she felt so ashamed she turned all red and white ! The 

BLACK VELVET CAT had to twist his whiskers to keep 
from laughing when he heard this — but nobody could see if 
PAPA GOOD-HEART or LITTLE MOTHER-HEART smiled 
or not, because just then a puff of wind came in the 
window and blew the candle out ! 



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Chapter Fifth 


A T sunrise the next morning, although it was raining 
hard, the NANNY-GOAT and the BLACK VELVET 



CAT said they must go. 


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Of course PAPA GOOD- HEART coaxed them to stay, and LITTLE 
MOTHER-HEART offered them a cup of Taffy and a dish of Sweet- 
nothings rolled up in little pink balls — but they said they must go. 

As soon as they were gone LITTLE MOTHER-HEART 
called all the LITTLE GIRL - HEARTS to hurry and fetch their 
curl-papers, and have their hair twisted up in lollipops for Sunday. 

But the LITTLE BOY-HEARTS didn’t care for curls, and 
besides they thought it was awfully jolly to be out in the rain, 
so PAPA GOOD-HEART took them all in a row, down to the 


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BEACH, and built them a high SAND-HILL ; and they all 





Oh ! It was lots of fun ! 


But there was one little BOY- HEART thought it would be 
MORE fun to be naughty, so he didn’t wait for his turn, but 



ran up behind his brother and upset him, and made him roll 

head over heels, all the way down to the bottom— where he would 
have been broken all to PIECES, only the sand was so wet and soft. 

But PAPA GOOD-HEART was MIGHTY angry when he 
saw this, and he made Master TOMMY HARDY-HEART come 

right straight down without any jump ! 

And then he smashed his brand new Peppermint-stick 
cane into atoms, and gave each one a long piece except 
TOMMY! But at this his little brothers cried so hard 

they nearly burst their sides, but PAPA GOOD-HEART told 
them he had no more, and so they all walked sadly home. 


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Chapter Sixtn 



UST as the clock was striking Cookie-time, the sun came out 



through the rain drops, and HANS FRITZIE-HEART (the 


gardener) came out into the garden again to see how the happy Heart 
family’s all-sorts-of-flowers looked after the shower ! And oh ! the pink 
TULIPS! they had all opened to say “Good evening;” and the 
POPPIES were bowing politely as Miss BREEZE passed by and the 
PANSIES had all turned into little JOHNNY-JUMP-UPS, because a 
little LADY-BUG had walked into the garden ! 

That was a pretty sight, and Hans Fritzie-heart was singing at 
the top of his voice when PAPA GOOD-HEART and all the little 
BOY-HEARTS came marching up to the gate. They were all so 
excited trying to show each other the beautiful Rainbow up in the Sky, 
that nobody saw a Great Big LETTER that was lying right out 


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in front of them on the grass, until little Mister CLUMSY- 


HEART stubbed his toe, and stumbled all over it! — he laughed 
out so it made them all turn round to see what was the 
matter?— and there laid the letter! and just as soon as dear 
old HANS FRITZIE- HEART could lift poor little CLUMSY- 
HEART off of the Address ! they read, in large printing letters : 



and inside was written in elegant curlyques : 



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Back to the SEA-SHORE they scampered, as fast as they 


could, calling the NEWS back after them to the little teeny 
MOTHER and all the little lollipop ladies. ' r — 


But LITTLE MOTHER - HEART knew all about it 


already (she always knew what was in letters before she read 


them), so she was very busy just then, combing out curls, 


tying bows, and filling a big basket with Raspberry-kisses 


and Flap-jacks and little sticky Whatnots until it nearly 


spilled over. 




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Then she followed down, with all the LITTLE GIRL-HEARTS 


crowding around her, and nearly stepping on her heels (like 


some little girls do !) to the Beach, where the PRESENT 



which was a beautiful CATAMA-NAN NY-BOAT ! — was bobbing 
up and down on the edge of the water ! 




Oh ! but I wish you could have seen PAPA GOOD- 


HEART ! — a big basket of GOODIES on each arm, 
shouting so loud you could hear him three smiles off : 



“Come, MY HEARTIES: All aboard for the CATAMA- 

NANNY - BOAT ! ” And LITTLE MOTHER - HEART, with 
her arms full of the little bits of children, getting in and 
sitting down in the arm-chair seat ! 

In a minute all the LITTLE HEARTIES were scrambled 

in ! PAPA GOOD-HEART pushed her off !— the breezes puffed 
out the sail ! and away they went, over the tops of the 
waves, faster than anybody could tell it ! 

Oh ! What lots of hands dipping in the water ! And 
Oh l such munching of Flap-jacks and nibbling and mincing 
of Raspberry-kisses ! 



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The next day they all went out sailing again, but 


Oh! my BUTTONS! they sailed so fast, on the tops of the 
waves- and so far off — in two minutes I couldn’t see a 
thing they were doing or hear a word that they said ! 

And the THIRD DAY !— such a BIG WIND came up— 

it blew them 


right out of 




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